The artistic background -- Plato: the arts and education -- Plato: mimesis -- Plato: poetry and inspiration -- Plato: art, beauty, and philosophy -- Aristotle: introduction to the poetics -- Aristotle: catharsis -- Aristotle: the shape of tragedy -- The Hellenistic age -- Aesthetics in the Roman Empire -- Plotinus.
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